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Mobile Phone Security has gone one step further. OKI Japan has just released an iris recognition software which uses the camera of your mobile phone (if it has a resolution of, at least, one megapixel).

This is, in fact, a new middleware layer which greatly improve mobile phone security (is supposed to give as false positives as one per 100.000) and right now it is available, of course, only in Japan.

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This week Microsoft released some betas for some of their famous incomming software products:

• Visual Studio 2008 (beta)
• .NET framework 3.5 (beta)
• Ajax Toolkit Control (beta)
• SilverLight 1.0 (release candidate)
• Iron Ruby (pre-alpha)

I belive that this fall will not be boring at all for all Microsoft developers.

Via Information Week

After one month from the presentation of the Cupertino phone, the #iphone IRC channel have built the first unauthorized iPhone GUI application.

With a simple “Hello World” black screen, it is the first step to publish a complete unauthorized development environment. Maybe this actions make Apple change this oppinion about installation of real third part applications.

They have released the source for the demo app, buildable with the community-built toolchain and UIKit.
There’s also a compiled binary version of the app being hosted here.

Via TUAW

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Samsung Mobile has announced a sleek new camera phone, the Samsung G600 wich incorporates a 2.2” LCD with 16 million colours, a 5 mega pixel multi function imaging system and full Bluetooth v.2 connectivity. And all of these features into a tiny 102×47.8×14.9 mm frame.

The Samsung G600 will be available in the UK from August 2007 on all major networks and from all retailers. We expect to see this “photophone” all over the world very soon too.

Via LetsGoDigital

15 years!!!! SMS has become a teenager.

I don’t mean to remark SMS qualities. It has already been done plenty of times. I want to criticize comment what I call the “swiss army knife” of mobile operator excuses.

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Microvision has announced that they have signed an agreement with Motorola to integrate the Pico Projector into future Motorola products.

The PicoP is an ultra-miniature laser based display engine that will enable big screen viewing for mobile devices. While the details of the agreement weren’t disclosed, the two companies did say that they were working together to integrate the PicoP into a working handset for demo purposes. The prototype phone will use the new WVGA, 854 x 480 pixel wide angle scanner that Microvision introduced at the May 2007 Society of Information Display conference.

Via OhGizmo

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Last week I received the new HTC Touch. A new Windows Mobile 6.0 device with an innovative interface called by HTC as TouchFLO.

This interface is a piece of software that allows the user, moving his finger over the screen, to quickly access most common applications and favorite contacts through a 3D cube graphic user interface. In that way, if you make a move with your finger from bottom to top of the screen, the 3D cube magically appears.

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Today, my adventure with SevenClick and the rest of the “Clickers” reaches its first month and I would like to share some thoughts about it.

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